On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 10:15 +0100, Michał Kazior wrote: > Johannes Berg wrote: > > This seems very odd. Why would one vif be off-channel, and the other be > > on-channel? That makes no sense, off-channel is a global state. > > Should mac80211 care if the device does channel-hopping? What if it's > possible for off-channel to be done simultaneously because the device > has two radios? What do you mean by channel hopping? IBSS-like behaviour? The two radios case is interesting, but is it really relevant right now? I suspect the first case of it we'll see will be 11ad and then it's two different bands. > Maybe off-channel should also be reworked more to support multiple > scenarios? What scenarios do you have in mind? > > My thinking here right now is that mac80211-based off-channel and > > scanning will only be supported for devices that don't implement > > multi-channel, since all others really need to do the channel scheduling > > themselves. > > Software off-channel isn't used only for scanning, or is it? It's only used for scanning & P2P-device activities right now, I could see it being used for FT-OTA (with resource reservation) too in the future, if needed, but that's about it. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
